"Well, I teach it every year when I teach freshman. My bare feet on the splintery pier turning away from the water. Someone in the distance calling someone too loud.Ī screen-door spring, the door banging shut.Īnother light going out (you must have just undressed for bed). Muffled quacking near the shore a frog belching crickets, cicadas, katydids, etc.-their relentless sexual messages.īranches brushing against each other-pine, beech.Ī fiberglass hull tapping against the dock.Ī dog barking then more barking from another part of the lake. The radio tower across the lake, signalling. receding.Ĭonnect-the-dot constellations filling the black sky-the ladle of the Big Dipper not quite directly overhead. Voices in conversation, in discussion-two men, adults-serious inflections (the words themselves just out of reach).Ī rusty screen-door spring, then the door swinging shut.įootsteps on a porch, the scrape of a wooden chair.įootsteps shuffling through sand, animated youthful voices (how many?-distinct, disappearing.Ī sudden guffaw some giggles a woman's-no, a young girl's-sarcastic reply someone's assertion a high-pitched male cackle. The plap-plapping of water around the pier. " Maine Lakes," photographs by Christopher Barnes, text by Sara Stiles BrightĪnd here's a lake-inspired poem sent to us by Lloyd Schwartz, who teaches poetry at the University of Massachusetts Boston (and who joined Here & Now in 2013 to talk poetry): Nostalgia (The Lake At Night).Here are more lake-inspired reading recommendations from our listeners: Find more from our conversation on the Mount Tambora eruption in 1816, and the art that came from it.Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with author and Colby College English professor Tilar Mazzeo ( Read E.B. White wrote his classic essay, "Once More to the Lake." In that spirit, we'll go to the lake once more, as well, and find other lake-inspired literature. When politics or social media seem overwhelming, to where do you escape? With World War II looming, writer E.B.
(Lennart Preiss/Getty Images) This article is more than 5 years old. A closed jetty is seen at lake Forggensee on Apnear Fuessen, Germany.
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